Talk Commerce

Brent W. Peterson
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Talk Commerce connects the commerce community through conversation, with host Brent W. Peterson talking to the founders, developers, agency leaders, and merchants who build and run eCommerce businesses on Shopify, Magento, Adobe Commerce, and B2B platforms. Two segments run alongside the full interviews. Agentic Commerce episodes run 10 minutes or less and take on one topic at a time, from AI shopping agents to the product data those agents read. Running Commerce covers the running and athletic industry and the brands, retailers, and race organizers who make it work. Episodes also cover eCommerce marketing, retail, and growing a team, along with live reporting from events like eTail, Shoptalk, and The Running Event. Read the show notes and the daily blog, and sign up for the newsletter, at https://talk-commerce.com

  1. 3h ago

    Product Images Get You Chosen in eCommerce with Jehan Hamedi of Vizit

    Jehan Hamedi is the founder of Vizit, an AI company working on the analysis and understanding of visual content and imagery for enterprise brands and retailers. He has spent about 15 years in the AI industry building, designing and scaling AI measurement systems. Detection and classification can tell you what sits inside an image, and Jehan's interest runs past that into a harder question, which is whether an image moves a particular shopper in a particular market and category to choose a product. Vizit trains models on behavioral, product, sales, social and search data to simulate the shopper, produces Vizit Scores against the competitive set, and feeds that context into generation through Vizit Spark, so a low scoring image gets rebuilt rather than described. In this conversation, the first impression Jehan says a shopper forms in under 13 milliseconds, the crickets you get when you ask a brand manager to name their best images, how context separates a generalist image generator from one aimed at conversion, what shifts by country when you photograph cat food, and his prediction about scoring images before they ship. This episode is sponsored by the B2B Commerce Trends and Opportunities Report, presented by Shopware and written and researched by Content Cucumber. Grab your free copy at https://contentcucumber.com/b2b-commerce-trends-report/ Links Vizit https://www.vizit.com Jehan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jehanhamedi/

    Product Images Get You Chosen in eCommerce with Jehan Hamedi of Vizit

  2. 1d ago

    TikTok Shop Belongs in Your Q4 Playbook with Jordan West of Social Commerce Club

    Jordan West of Social Commerce Club, a TikTok Shop agency, joins Brent to talk about how a path through dropshipped hoverboards, Shopify, Facebook ads and a string of acquired brands led him to go all in on TikTok Shop. The conversation covers why creators who only get paid when they make a sale hand brands a steady supply of human made content, how creative that works on TikTok carries over to other channels, and why he sees TikTok as the strongest top of funnel channel brands have had in North America. Jordan also explains how a local service business can use TikTok without a product to ship, why he believes every business owner has to be the top content creator for the business, and what brands should do heading into Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the rest of Q4. Links Jordan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordan-west-marketer Social Commerce Club https://socialcommerceclub.com Learn more about our at-event interviews at talk-commerce.com/events.

  3. 4d ago

    Connect Marketing to Your P&L with Mohammed Hedadji of Nodus

    Mohammed Hedadji is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Nodus, a growth systems agency for retail and high consideration brands. Isaac Morey sat down with him for the final interview of Shoptalk Fall in Nashville, the day after Nodus turned four. In this conversation, Mohammed traces Nodus back to almost ten years at Red Ventures working with Walmart, Procter and Gamble and Apple, and explains why the middle market needs a partner that grounds marketing in the P&L before adding more tools, since the average brand has double the vendors it had five years ago. Nodus is staffed half with senior marketers and half with engineers and data scientists. He describes Ember, the Nodus tool that checks performance marketing every ten minutes, the firm no replace rule Nodus keeps for its people, AI slop as the result of a shortcut, and his hot take on partners that measure their own results. Find Nodus at nodus.io and Mohammed on LinkedIn. Talk Commerce is at talk-commerce.com.

    Connect Marketing to Your P&L with Mohammed Hedadji of Nodus

  4. 5d ago

    Does Your Company Show Up in Agentic Search with Mark Sifrit of G10X

    Mark Sifrit is the general manager of North America for G10X, a digital and AI solutions company that builds AI and technology solutions at scale for enterprises. Isaac Morey sat down with him on the floor at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. In this conversation, shoppers move from traditional search to agentic search, and Mark asks whether a company shows up in the answer at all. He covers what a company keeps private, what it makes public and how agents reach it, why agents learn through their interactions so a company can go back and educate them, and why the first wave of AI projects proved a company was AI ready without solving a business problem. Mark defines AI slop as a mixed message, when the agents cannot tell what the source of truth is, and walks through the AI enabled development lifecycle G10X built, including GlassX for production monitoring and GTX for end to end testing. Find G10X at g10x.com and Mark on LinkedIn. Talk Commerce is at talk-commerce.com.

    Does Your Company Show Up in Agentic Search with Mark Sifrit of G10X

  5. 6d ago

    B2B eCommerce Launches Slip on Product Data with Matt Christensen of DDS

    Matt Christensen is president and co-founder of DDS, Distributor Data Solutions, out of Salt Lake City. DDS sits between manufacturers and the distributors who sell their products and moves rich product data, images, descriptions, videos and attributes, into the shape each distributor can use. Our Shoptoberfest tape in Nashville did not survive the Bavarian Bierhaus, so Matt came back to the studio for a make-up, a special Shopware edition. In this conversation, DDS customers run from 10,000 SKUs to close to 15 million and every manufacturer stores and names the data differently. Shopify, BigCommerce, the PIM companies and Shopware are pushing wholesale, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and industrial supply ahead faster than Matt has seen. AI took enrichment and normalization from code to a custom spec about a hundred times faster. A large distributor shows sixty or seventy percent of the catalog online, and agents cannot find the rest. B2B launches slip six months or a year on the data, not the platform, at five to fifteen minutes per SKU. Find DDS at distributordatasolutions.com and Matt on LinkedIn. The B2B Commerce Trends and Opportunities Report, written and researched by Content Cucumber and presented by Shopware, is free at contentcucumber.com. Talk Commerce is at talk-commerce.com.

    B2B eCommerce Launches Slip on Product Data with Matt Christensen of DDS

  6. Oct 13

    eCommerce Accounting Where Almost Right Is Not Good Enough with Parag Mamnani of Webgility

    Parag Mamnani is the founder and CEO of Webgility, which automates accounting for multi-channel brands and retailers. He built eCommerce stores on osCommerce and X-Cart before Magento, ran Amazon Webstore until Amazon sold it to Shopify, and started Webgility almost two decades ago on three words written on a napkin, integration, automation and insights. Brent and Parag go back to the early Magento Imagine days. In this episode Brent and Parag cover: Why the commerce platform is not your system of truth, and why the accounting system is the only place the real margin and cash flow liveAlmost right is not good enough. Nobody accepts 95 percent accurate books, and the best AI accounting benchmarks land in the low 90sAI as a pretty intelligent intern, sycophancy, and the first awe-inspiring report that falls apart when you double-clickHow Webgility works with QuickBooks, Xero and NetSuite, and the battleground over who owns the general ledgerThree habits for business owners, a clean system of record, a monthly close rhythm, and time spent reading the financialsBlack Friday, agentic commerce and why Parag expects agents to stay a small share of transaction volumeParag gives the Free Joke Project an eight. This episode is sponsored by Webgility. Links from Webgility Webgility https://www.webgility.com $300 worth of free eCommerce books audit for Talk Commerce listeners https://www.webgility.com/ecommerce-books-audit Limited-time offer, 50% off the full-service bookkeeping package https://www.webgility.com/schedule-expert-session Parag on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/paragmamnani/

    eCommerce Accounting Where Almost Right Is Not Good Enough with Parag Mamnani of Webgility

  7. Oct 12

    Train Your Team When Not to Use AI with Brandon Urich of SwiftOtter

    Brent sat down with Brandon Urich at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Brandon is the president of SwiftOtter, a full-service digital agency that grew out of the Magento developer training business its founder Joseph built, and that now works across Adobe Commerce, Shopify and BigCommerce with headless builds on Next.js. The conversation covers how the best kept secret in the agency space turned its attention to agency services, the point where an eCommerce platform's content tools cap out and a headless front end takes over, why the failed headless projects of five to ten years ago look different now that AI lowers the cost of custom UI, whether headless levels the field between platforms, why a multi-platform partner earns more trust than a single-platform one, Brandon's definition of AI slop and why SwiftOtter trains its team on when not to use AI, his hot take that guardrails are where everyone is stuck, and OmniGuide, the guided shopping application that embeds in catalog pages, PDPs and search so the research stays on the brand's website. Links SwiftOtter https://swiftotter.com Learn more about our at-event interviews at talk-commerce.com/events.

    Train Your Team When Not to Use AI with Brandon Urich of SwiftOtter

  8. Oct 9

    There Is No Best Platform with Yurii Kuzminov of Axceleris

    Brent sat down with Yurii Kuzminov at Shoptalk Fall in Nashville. Yurii is the CEO and founder of Axceleris, an agency that started in Magento more than sixteen years ago and now partners with both Adobe and Shopify. The conversation covers why Yurii comes to events for the meetings and watches the sessions later, the hard decision to add Shopify after years of being against it, why a straightforward D2C store often lowers its total cost of ownership by migrating off Magento and why some D2C merchants still belong on Magento, how AI lets his developers deliver more in every paid hour and gave Magento a second breath, the London agency round table where one shop moved a Magento site to Hyvä with most of the work done by AI, Shop Pay arriving on Magento and what Shopify's benchmarks say about guest checkout, why there is no best platform on the market and why a single-platform agency will always tell you otherwise, and his view that AI content is fine when a person with real experience sits in the loop. Links Axceleris https://axceleris.com Learn more about our at-event interviews at talk-commerce.com/events.

    There Is No Best Platform with Yurii Kuzminov of Axceleris
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Talk Commerce connects the commerce community through conversation, with host Brent W. Peterson talking to the founders, developers, agency leaders, and merchants who build and run eCommerce businesses on Shopify, Magento, Adobe Commerce, and B2B platforms. Two segments run alongside the full interviews. Agentic Commerce episodes run 10 minutes or less and take on one topic at a time, from AI shopping agents to the product data those agents read. Running Commerce covers the running and athletic industry and the brands, retailers, and race organizers who make it work. Episodes also cover eCommerce marketing, retail, and growing a team, along with live reporting from events like eTail, Shoptalk, and The Running Event. Read the show notes and the daily blog, and sign up for the newsletter, at https://talk-commerce.com

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  • Creator
    Brent W. Peterson
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    472
  • Rating
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    © 2021-2026 Talk Commerce
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